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Yealand Conyers
Yealand Conyers is a village in the civil parish of The Yealands, in the Lancaster district, in the county of Lancashire, England. In 2011 the former parish of Yealand Conyers had a population of 190. Community The community is in the same electoral district as Yealand Redmayne and Silverdale. The Yealands and Silverdale were originally in the same manor of Yealand in Domesday Book. Yealand Conyers has three religious institutions, the Church of England St John's and Catholic St Mary's but is particularly of note for its early support of Quakerism. Richard Hubberthorne, one of the early Quaker preachers was from the Yealands. George Fox preached a sermon in the village in 1652 and the village's Meeting House dates from 1692. The Quaker's Old School is today used as a simple hostel and can host people visiting the '1652 country'. The village has both a manor house and a stately home Leighton Hall. The bulk of the Leighton Moss RSPB reserve is in Yealand Conyers but main v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yealands
The Yealands is a civil parish in City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England. It includes the villages of Yealand Conyers and Yealand Redmayne and the hamlet of Yealand Storrs. The parish was formed on 1 April 2024 by combining the former parishes of Yealand Conyers and Yealand Redmayne. It has a parish council, the lowest level of local government in England. In 2021 the parishes had a population of 539. The parish is in the north west of Lancashire, with its northern boundary along the county boundary with Westmorland and Furness in Cumbria. The M6 motorway runs along the eastern border of the parish, the A6 road and the West Coast Main Line railway run through the eastern part of the parish, and the Furness line crosses the far western corner of the parish. Most of the parish (except the area east of the A6) is within the Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape (formerly AONB). The amenities in the parish include Yealand Church of England Primary School, Yealand Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Vision Of Britain Through Time
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website ''A Vision of Britain through Time''. NB: A "GIS" is a geographic information system, which combines map information with statistical data to produce a visual picture of the iterations or popularity of a particular set of statistics, overlaid on a map of the geographic area of interest. Original GB Historical GIS (1994–99) The first version of the GB Historical GIS was developed at Queen Mary, University of London between 1994 and 1999, although it was originally conceived simply as a mapping extension to the existing Labour Markets Database (LMDB). The system included digital boundaries for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Lancashire
A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a Church (building), church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In The Yealands
The Yealands is a civil parish in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It was created in 2024 from the parishes of Yealand Conyers and Yealand Redmayne. It contains 43 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The civil parish contains the villages of Yealand Conyers and Yealand Redmayne, and is otherwise rural. Most of the listed buildings are houses, farmhouses and farm buildings, many of them on the main streets of the villages. The other listed buildings include a country house, two churches, and a Quaker Meeting House. The Lancaster Canal The Lancaster Canal is a canal in North West England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria (Historic counties of England, historically in Westmorland). The section around the crossing of the River ... passes through the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Kent
The River Kent is a short river in the county of Cumbria in England. It originates in hills surrounding Kentmere, and flows for around 20 miles (32 km) into the north of Morecambe Bay. The upper reaches and the western bank of the estuary are located within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park. The river flows in a generally north to south direction, passing through Kentmere, Staveley, Cumbria, Staveley, Burneside, Kendal and Sedgwick, Cumbria, Sedgwick. Near Sedgwick, the river passes through a rock gorge which produces a number of low waterfalls. This section is popular with kayakers as it offers high quality whitewater for several days after rain. The village of Arnside is situated on the east bank of the Kent estuary, just above Morecambe Bay, and a tidal bore known as the Arnside Bore forms in the estuary at this point on high spring tides. The river has been used as a source of power since at least the 13th century. In 1848, the construction of Kentmere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnside
Arnside is a village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It is Historic counties of England, historically part of Westmorland, near the border with Lancashire, England. The Lake District National parks of England and Wales, National Park is located a few miles north. Travelling by road, Arnside is to the south of Kendal, to the east of Ulverston, to the east of Barrow-in-Furness, to the north of Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster and to the east of Grange-over-Sands. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 2001 census the parish had a population of 2,301, increasing at the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census to 2,334. It faces the estuary of the River Kent on the north-eastern corner of Morecambe Bay, within the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is overlooked by Arnside Knott, a Marilyn (hill), hill that rises out of the estuary. A detailed account of the wildlife of the Arnside and Silverdale AONB is provided by John Wils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holme, Cumbria
Holme is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, about north of Burton-in-Kendal and south east of Milnthorpe. The parish had a population of 1,167 at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,486 at the 2011 Census. History Holme was originally a minor settlement in the parish of Burton-in-Kendal. It expanded following the completion of the Lancaster Canal in 1819, which provided a transport link for the mill at Holme Mills. The parish church of the Holy Trinity was built in 1839 to support the growing population, and the former school, now the parish hall, opened in 1840. The school was replaced in 1911 by a larger building on North Road, which still survives as Holme Primary School. Geography Historically within the county of Westmorland, the village lies adjacent to the Lancaster Canal, West Coast Main Line and M6 motorway, which run close together to take advantage of the local topography. Governance An electoral ward in the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milnthorpe
Milnthorpe is a village, civil parish, and former market town in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It is south of Kendal. Historic counties of England, Historically in the county of Westmorland and on the A6 road (England), A6, the village contains several old hostelries and hosts a market (place), market every Friday. The parish, which includes the village of Ackenthwaite, had a population of 2,199 according to the 2011 Census. History Milnthorpe was granted a market charter in 1334, although this lapsed in the 1920s. Milnthorpe was part of the township of Heversham-with Milnthorpe, and was in Heversham parish until 1896. The 19th-century St Thomas' Church, Milnthorpe, Church of St Thomas, which overlooks The Green and The Square, was designed by Kendal architect George Webster (architect), George Webster. Milnthorpe became a centre of business and activity because it was originally a port, using the River Bela and estuary (now only navigable to Arnside) and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beetham
Beetham is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It is situated on the border with Lancashire, north of Carnforth. It is part of the Arnside and Silverdale, Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,724, increasing at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census to 1,784. History Craven in the Domesday Book#The Land of Roger de Poitou in Yorkshire, Domesday Book folio 332, Craven in the Domesday Book of 1086 shows that until 1066, Tostig Godwinson, Earl Tostig was Lord of Beetham and the surrounding areas of Farleton, Cumbria, Farleton, Preston Richard, Hincaster, Heversham and Levens in Cumbria, plus Yealand Redmayne and Borwick in Lancashire. Beetham Manorialism, Manor then amounted to 25 carucates (ca. 3000 acres/1250ha) of ploughland. The Norman Conquest of England added it to the extensive lands of Roger de Poitou. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Carlisle. Cumbria is predominantly rural, with an area of and a population of 500,012; this makes it the third-largest ceremonial county in England by area but the eighth-smallest by population. Carlisle is located in the north; the towns of Workington and Whitehaven lie on the west coast, Barrow-in-Furness on the south coast, and Penrith, Cumbria, Penrith and Kendal in the east of the county. For local government purposes the county comprises two Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas, Westmorland and Furness and Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland. Cumbria was created in 1974 from the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster (, ) is a city in Lancashire, England, and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district. The city is on the River Lune, directly inland from Morecambe Bay. Lancaster is the county town, although Lancashire County Council has been based at County Hall, Preston, County Hall in Preston, Lancashire, Preston since its formation in 1889. The city's long history is marked by Lancaster Roman Fort, Lancaster Castle, Lancaster Priory, Lancaster Priory Church, Lancaster Cathedral and the Ashton Memorial. It is the seat of Lancaster University and has a campus of the University of Cumbria. It had a population of 52,234 in the 2011 census, compared to the district, which had a population of 138,375. The House of Lancaster was a branch of the List of English monarchs, English royal family. The Duchy of Lancaster still holds large estates on behalf of Charles III, who is the Duke of Lancaster. The Port of Lancaster and the 18th-century Lancas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
